Who is the inventor of glass
How glass was invented?
we use it every day and we take it for
granted but really it is amazing
in fact there ought to be a museum to
celebrate it and there is Nicole takes
us on a tour from an ancient portrait of
an Egyptian King to a very fragile
baseball bat all of the fabulous objects
at this museum have one thing in common
they're all made of glass Lindsay is a
teen with a cool job she's what's called
an explainer at the corning museum of
glass an amazing tourist attraction in
upstate New York there are 45,000 glass
objects in this museum tracing the
history of glass making glass making
started about 3500 years ago so it's
actually a very old form of art at some
point long ago humans realized that when
lightning struck sand crystals that
formed were useful heat plus sand equal
to AH early glass production was mostly
for royalty the process of creating it
was time-consuming and costly then the
Romans discovered that glass objects
could be made quickly and easily by
blowing through a tube so when that type
of glass making was developed then
bigger pieces could be made and they
could be made a lot quicker and then
more people were able to own glass when
machines entered the picture glass
became even more widely used and while
artists continue to create handcrafted
Glass Works advances in glass making
continued
the museum features innovations and
glass products the corning company
helped pioneer from mirrors for
telescopes to ultra-thin tubes that
carry information for modern
communication systems called fiber
optics but seeing how glass is made the
old-fashioned way is one of the biggest
attractions at the Museum is
glassblowing a dying art well a lot of
people ask that question and I think a
lot of people expect me to say yes it is
but it's actually not Eric and other
experts demonstrate why creating glass
is attracting a new generation of
enthusiastic fans and participants so
how can teens get involved in
glassblowing
well most large communities have a glass
making center and often they offer
classes and usually you can start those
as a teenager or you can come to the
charming town of Corning and see how
it's done by the Masters thanks for
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